Carretto Quotes & Sayings

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. — Mel Brooks

She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition. Therefore it was that she searched with earnestness for a heading under which to put Mrs. Wilkins, and in this way illumine and steady her own mind; and sitting there looking at her uneasily after her last remark, and feeling herself becoming more and more unbalanced and infected, she decided pro tem, as the vicar said at meetings, to put her under the heading Nerves. It was just possible that she ought to go straight into the category Hysteria, which was often only the antechamber to Lunacy, but Mrs. Arbuthnot had learned not to hurry people into their final categories, having on more than one occasion discovered with dismay that she had made a mistake; and how difficult it had been to get them out again, and how crushed she had been with the most terrible remorse. Yes. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

This building, the tower that was supposed to be the centerpiece of your little Gotham Initiative? Now it'll be your tomb. — Scott Snyder

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who? — Mick Ebeling

Boiled food is life,' Levi-Strauss writes, 'roast food death.' He reports finding countless examples in the world's folklore of 'cauldrons of immortality,' but not a single example of a 'spit of immortality. — Michael Pollan

Love is communicating. I'm sorry, mime, but I only lust you. — Jarod Kintz

That's a load of crap!" Conor shouted. "He didn't need to kill her. The people were behind him. They would have followed him anyway." The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. And so the injustice that I saw, the reason that I came walking, was for the queen, not the prince. — Patrick Ness

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity. — Carlo Carretto

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation. — Edmund Barton

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius
Dostoyevsky perhaps. — Larry McMurtry

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about. — Cameron Crowe

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. — Evelyn Ashford

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this. — Kate Christensen